Re: no tools in my tkined

Peter Maersk-Moller (peter.maersk-moller@jrc.it)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:19:06 +0100

Hi Tkined users

> From schoenw@cs.utwente.nl Wed Nov 20 19:24:37 1996

> The manager.tcl process is talking to Tkined via a pipe. You should
> try to figure out if there is some communication between manager.tcl
> and Tkined. Some systems have system call tracer like strace or truss.
> These little utilities allow you to display the messages exchanged
> between Tkined and manager.tcl. If AIX does not have such a useful
> utility, you can go ahead and put printfs into tnmIned.c and
> tkiMethods.c, tkiObjects.c to find out what is going on.

When a Solaris 2.5.1 (probably lower versions too) don't have
satifying DNS service (if configured for DNS), the tools menu
are delayed for minutes or more before showing up. But that's
a problem in the Solaris configuration.

Regards

Peter Maersk-Moller